Steve Rushin Quotes

As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough.

Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.

For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.

The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie.

On its surface, the HBO documentary series 'Hard Knocks,' about the New York Jets' training camp, resembles another HBO series, 'The Sopranos.' Both star the stout patriarch of a New Jersey 'family' preoccupied with food, intimidation, and florid profanity.

I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.

I'd tell my 16-year-old self, 'Don't take yourself so seriously, and just have fun.'

If you're a sports fan and you're home and you're washing dishes, usually your TV is on ESPN and you're just getting the highlights and keeping up-to-date with all of the sports going around, all of the news.

We fell in love with wrestling, and then we really wanted to break barriers, and we now get to do that because that's evolved beyond the ring.

I want to be the first female to main-event WrestleMania, and I just want to continue to get better and better and continue my dad's legacy.

In my opinion, a lot of NFL broadcasts are not fun to watch.

Wednesday is always a ramp-up day during Super Bowl week. This is the day that players who didn't make the big game always appear or arrive in the Super Bowl city to hawk their wares or promote a sponsor, so that's why NFL Network always holds the bulk of their coverage from Radio Row at the Super Bowl Media Center.

I love 'Game of Thrones' just as much as I love watching the NFL; I think a lot of fans do, too.

Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed 'SportsCenter' from being a show where highlights and storytelling ruled the day to a show where analysts ruled the day.

Sport on TV is so boring.

Being a huge football fan, the chance to work for the NFL and do a show combining sports and entertainment is truly a dream come true.

One of my first heroes was Jim Robson, the hall-of-fame broadcaster with the Canucks and Hockey Night in Canada, and Jim Ross with the WWE and Howard Cosell was a big influence on me.

Whether it's NASCAR or whether it's football, or whether it's the NBA, any time something spills over to the point where somebody makes a WWE reference, I always think it's a good thing.

In the NFL, there's never really that moment where you're like, Hey, I made the team. Or: Hey, you made the practice squad. You just kind of show up the next day and go to work. Nobody really says anything. You just kind of go to work.

The WWE machine is a lot stronger than it was when I was there. When you go to TV, it's unbelievable the production that's going on.

I wrestled a bull on national TV for months. A midget dressed as a bull against another midget. You can't take it that seriously. So, every opportunity I'm given I think, 'How can I make this fun?'

I wouldn't want to be a DB in the NFL. They've got no chance. There's no contact down the field, but fans want to see points.

Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.

Long before social media and even television, enterprising wrestling promoters wisely scouted and signed new stars that would not only help them sell tickets, but also garner publicity from mainstream sports media.

Sony is the only studio without broadcast relationships with the NFL.